Re: How to tie a note in a chord to a note outside a chord

[Robin Bannister]

Jayaratna wrote: 
> This does not seem to work:
>  <<{\stemUp c2^~ c4}\\{\stemDown g4 \stemUp a4_~ a}>>

Well, this looks like (part of) what you want! 
Or is it that you then don't see how to cope with the d2.? 

The manual mentions connecting ties across voices 
( Snippets / Rhythms / Making an object invisible with the transparent property)
but only deals with a simple case. 
Using that approach here probably involves a _third_ voice, 
which then needs some more tweaking to get things aligned. 

But do you know about tieWaitForNote? 
Try this: 
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twfon = { \set tieWaitForNote = ##t }
twfoff = { \set tieWaitForNote = ##f }
\relative c''
<<
 {c4 g4 \twfon c4^~ a4_~ <a c>4 \twfoff <g bes>8 <fis a>8 <g bes>4 <a c>4}
\\ 
 {g8 f8 e8 f8 g4 s4 d2. e4 }
> >

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This is quite readable. 
But if you insist on an exact match, 
replace the   c4^~   with   c2*1/2^~

Cheers,
Robin